Nadrian F. Blog: The Maze Runner

Prompt: If you were the author, what would you change? Why?

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I really don’t like this prompt. I really, really do not like this prompt, well, because if I were the author, then it wouldn’t really be the, Maze Runner anymore. If I wrote that book, it wouldn’t be called the maze runner, it wouldn’t be about an experiment, it wouldn’t be anything close to that book, why? Because I didn’t write it, I didn’t come up with those unique ideas, more like, I can’t come up with those ideas, again, why? Because they’re James Dashner’s. Writing styles, ideas, plot, those are the things that makes books different, or unique from each other. It’s the author creates those unique characteristics. I’m not the author of the Maze Runner, so I’m just me.

Although there are some things I do want to change about some things. I feel as if the author has this, "Because I told you so" kind of feel. There were these moments where the author did someone do something impossible, yet it happened just to progress the story. It just doesn't feel realistic. For example, a character has died. That character was really important to the story, one who the author knows can't die. A few chapters in, you learn that the character has this really unrealistic, not useful skill to transport your soul into another body. That character lives just for the sake of the story in a completely unrealistic fashion. It's just stupid, completely stupid. I just think that the author took the lazy way out and created a story on the go, not planning anything. It just feels like the author was improvising, in a stupid fashion. That's exactly what happened several times in the Maze Runner.

“They were in this maze for 3 years yet they just thought of putting the sections all together to find a code… What? How did they barely find that out? They had 3 years to do everything, and now they just barely try this? How???”

“Because I, the author, told you so.”

There was another thing that I found profound, completely profound and I'm talking about the trilogy entirely here. Out of the 10 characters that I completely loved, 9 of them died. 9 of them, they died. (Bold, capitalization, and underlines for big emphasis.) It feels like this is the exactly like the hit TV show, Game of Thrones now. Everyone dies. Might as well put some opera music along with the scenes of them dying and make a nice montage video out of it.